Good taste won today as Topps scrapped plans of having a Bernie Madoff card in the upcoming 2009 Allen & Ginter set.
The email reads:
The email reads:
From: Topps
Madoff Card Removed From Allen and Ginter
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:33 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: Madoff Card Removed From Allen and GinterTopps announces that it is removing Bernie Madoff from its "World's Biggest Hoaxes, Hoodwinks and Bamboozles" insert from 2009 Allen & Ginter Baseball to comply with a request made by Major League Baseball. The card will be replaced with a subject to be named later.
Check out Wax Heaven's report on Allen & Ginter '09 for more information on the set.
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It is good to see that Topps saw (even if they were told) that someone like Madoff in a card set comes too close being mis-interpreted as celebrating the man, rather than merely commemorating his downfall.